Example sentences of "and [verb] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He works till lunch , then wanders into the kitchen and has long argument with Tony , or perhaps a discussion about the best way to cook trout or whether or not to sack the gardener . |
| 2 | The machairs , gently undulating shell sand deposits , and their associated dune systems cover about 120 square kilometres and occupy long stretches of the western sea-board of South Uist , Benbecula and North Uist . |
| 3 | Somewhere to loll and lounge and enjoy long suppers around the farmhouse table by the light of a paraffin lamp on late summer evenings . |
| 4 | In fact , competition has been reduced , prices have rocketed , thousands of public house tenants have been forced out of the trade and thousands more have felt that they have no reasonable option other than to accept the terms being imposed upon them by the brewers and accept long leases at enormously increased rents , with full responsibility for repairs . |
| 5 | For reasons not apparent he had become a reformed character : he worked diligently and spent long hours in the laboratory . |
| 6 | During the period of his studies , he was laid low by tuberculosis , and spent long periods in the sanatorium undergoing treatment . |
| 7 | Those MPs who succumbed to the pressures of Party democracy brought their golf clubs with them and spent long days on the sandy links of Southport and elsewhere , returning to their hotels in the evening to take part in an entertainment such as the Agents ' dinner and dance . |
| 8 | They go to amusement arcades , and start a poetry magazine , and buy pornographic books , and release long streamers of lavatory paper from the top of the Pan-Am building to see whose will be carried further by the wind as it falls . |
| 9 | He had gone to Peterborough and worked long hours in a canning factory only so that he could own this bike . |
| 10 | Mrs Burnett seems to have taken marital and maternal duties lightly , and though she did not formally end the marriage until 1898 , from early days she made a practice of absenting herself from her family , often for months on end , travelling in North America and Europe , and spending long periods in England , where she moved in high society and had many literary friends , Henry James and Israel Zangwill [ qq.v. ] among them . |
| 11 | After knowing only life at the highest level of the game , McGrain is full of admiration for the players Arbroath have assembled from Tayside , Edinburgh and Glasgow who combine playing , training and travelling long distances with everyday jobs . |
| 12 | Lawn rake The most common type is fan-shaped with close-set wire tines and is used gently to remove surface rubbish from the lawn and to lift long stems to blade height so they will be cut off . |
| 13 | I have phoned Sarah many times and had long talks with her about the welfare of goats . |
| 14 | The way in which they do that is to abolish the old tenancies and to introduce long leases under which full repairing responsibility is placed on the tenants . |
| 15 | That summer he enlisted as an air-raid warden and sat long hours of the night by a telephone doing nothing . |